What is the best informal imperative form for saying Be Quiet! or Hush! e.g. to a small child or pet?
A friend of mine said ¡Callado! would work, not sure about that or ¡Cállate! (which I guess means ...

In school, I learned that the Spanish past tenses were called preterite and imperfect in English, and preterito and imperfecto in Spanish. However, in talking to native speakers I've run across other ...

There are some verbs that seem to have quite distinct meanings in the preterite tense. I don't know whether they also seem to change meanings to native speakers or if it just seems completely natural ...